Revolution is not a dinner party
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ying Chang Compestine
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780805082074; 9781428757042
Subjects: Physicians; Communism; Families; Juvenile fiction; Family life; Fiction; Persecution; History
Description: Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
Notes: Maps on endpapers.

A Junior Library Guild selection
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Little flower --; title: Father's ponytails --; title: Waste is a great crime --; title: Bartering with Comrade Li--; title: Homemade ice cream and German chocolate --; title: "Bloodsucking landlord!" --; title: Will butterflies land on me? --; title: The terrifying birthday --; title: Crushed under the heel -- -- 2.; title: Bamboo in the wind --; title: Revolution is not a dinner party --; title: Drawing a class line --; title: Dark clouds --; title: Would I ever see him again? --; title: The long white rope --; title: Shopping with Mother -- -- 3.; title: Bridge behind Mao --; title: Angry tiger --; title: Too proud to bend --; title: Waiting for Daddy --; title: Howling wolf --; title: Pig fat --; title: Golden Gate Bridge --; title: Author's note --; title: Historical background.